skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you need to make the case for banning them with a series of articles:

1. Stop Posting Rants on Hacker News

2. Why I Don't Like People Writing About Disliking Things

3. You Should Not Tell People Not To Do Things
Not sarcasm. Your reply was informative. I hadn't considered (although I should have) that the candidate in power would have interfered with the prosecution of this. Thanks.
We've finally entered the age of illegal memes.
> if the fine for the action is less than it grosses, it is just a tax.

And not just the actions regulators catch, but the others too.

do { new Crimes() } while ( fine(Crimes.detected) < profit(Crimes.all) )
The complete moron’s guide to GameStop’s stock roller coaster
The problem is that most people don't have $10k that they could pay directly.

You might find this interesting too. https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/20/the-amish-health-care-...

Edit: why is this downvoted?
Oh, YouTube. I'll never understand how they made it such that when you open your subscriptions page it first loads the list of videos, and then, 5 seconds later, shows their durations. Or how the player UI is unresponsive for several seconds after you open a video. That took some special talent apparently.
Eh, 98.24% of all users worldwide can use TLS 1.2: https://caniuse.com/?search=tls%201.2

I'm not willing to make security exceptions to support devices from 2011. "HTTPS by default" lifts all boats: people who would MITM your users can't tell if they're reading your nice blog or a critique of their local government, and that's a good thing.
You're taking one single phrase out of context and getting bent out of shape.

Just assume the people you're writing to aren't all idiots. If you really think OP meant what you thought, ask them.
The niche IKEA fills isn't "cheap but functional", it's "stylish, but cheap."

Why would you buy an IKEA table and chairs for ~$120 when you can buy a folding table and chairs for less? The folding table and chairs are not only more durable, but they can also be used in the future for other purposes after you replace them as your main dining room furniture. They store better. They last forever. (My grandmother plays cards with her friends on such tables that are older than my parents.) The IKEA table and chairs you get are inferior in every way except one: style.

> When your answer to "How do I furnish?" is "Do without until the perfect deal comes along", do you think it might be worth considering that your answer might not be great for everyone?

This is probably the best answer for most. No answer will be right for everyone. For instance, someone trying to entertain clients in their home will need better than a folding table for dining.

When you're starting out: buy inexpensive, durable, and multipurpose for anything you can't do without, otherwise go without until you can afford to get the right piece.
I’d love to hear more of your thoughts on this - I hadn’t considered DBs as a form of state. Obviously they are, it just hasn’t occurred to me.

If I may borrow a related concept - what other mental models should I CASCADE the implications of this new perspective to? Ie, how does this change how you approach problems? Are there limits where you would call out?
How do we feel about some kind of objective standardized test that you'd have to pass in order to be allowed to vote? Should cover some high-school basics as well as an understanding of the published platform for all major candidates in the election.
We don't currently have an integration with doc on demand. We're piloting so we're not releasing our customer list just yet, but will soon.
Many CORS errors on ff.
It's a valid point and I have found value in looking up past friends on facebook.

I'm not sure a teenager has the same value. Anyone under 18 shouldn't have real identifying names them.

When facebook came out you had people isolated into networks of schools. Those structures provided better protections and freedom. The transition to fully public with forced real names made facebook into something not for kids but great for older folks.
It's more obvious that microwaving your phone is bad than voting by phone or web is bad, more obvious that any given made-up benefit of microwaving your phone is untrue than the ability to vote by phone or web is, and not as harmful as losing your vote. The comparison has too many faults to be useful. You should address the issue directly, rather than relying on analogies.
So, yeah, if you disable JS, you'd only improve your experience on many non-interactive websites.
true in general and usually more than 5x. some teams manage to turn it into 10, 20 and 40x

ldap integration sounds pretty simple though, so maybe not in this case
Thanks for that; a very thorough overview I hadn't read and it saves me going through wikipedia to find some examples for the (reasonable) request in response to my previous comment.

I should point out that there are plenty of editors who lean left that make genuine attempts to keep it out of their editing and are as frustrated as me about those who don't; I genuinely suspect it is an editor-demographics numbers thing that causes the imbalance as much as anything, as previously stated.
I thought this space was already cornered by companies in India? That's where most of the world gets it cheap generics from, I think.
> Saying "We should all buy GameStop to engineer the short squeeze of the century and fuck over greedy hedge funds" is completely transparent, truthful, and legal.

To be clear I’m not saying it’s definitely illegal because I’m really not sure and I think you could make the argument either way. But I absolutely would not characterize it as “completely transparent, truthful, and legal”.

I think the SEC could at least make the argument that WSB redditors collectively were essentially activist investors acting in concert and failed to make the relevant disclosures to put the market on notice. And, in the eyes of federal securities laws, failing to disclose material information is akin to deceit.

I‘m not saying the SEC will (or even should) make that argument but I am saying that this is absolutely not nearly as cut and dry as you think. Not by a long shot.
> Still don’t get how this mess is going to get cleaned up since it’s impossible for the shorts to cover.

A deep pocketed long term large fund can buy the short position at a discount, a bit like distressed debt, and then just wait it out. It's a guaranteed win if you have deep pockets.

Note that when they buy the position, they don't also inherit the current mark to market loss, only a part of it (the price they pay).

What is a fair price for this position? I would love to know if someone has any insight on this.
The inferior tax treatment of put options relative to index funds also matters. Not tempted.
The biggest problem is that most of the money in healthcare actually goes to pay salaries, mostly those of nurses and doctors, but administrators are up there too. Pharmaceutical companies are not as profitable as one might imagine, and drugs are a relatively small fraction of total healthcare costs.
UI comment: the top banner vibrates (small-large jitter) when you scroll a few pixels down.
Sure, I won't argue that. But it's another useful filter for me.
Why do we need a system as complex as this instead of just funding healthcare through tax dollars and giving it to everyone like many other developed nations?
Other sources show this is the code

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241
Fair assessment.

I am just pushing back at the narrative that this is a "win" for the little guy and a "loss" for wall street.

Retail investors putting money into the market _at all_ is a net win for wall street _every time_ imo.
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Hasn't Gitlab just been a copying Github machine too from the start? I don't mean to start a fight but I've only ever seen praise from its launch as a wanted competitor, but no one seems to have mentioned the obvious? I know git wasn't invented by Github but from what I remember Github was a pretty clear roadmap for Gitlab.
It's in alpha (or beta at this point? Either way, point still stands). At some point they will set actual prices but they haven't yet. We won't really be able to compare the two on price until they do.
> In my head this is translating as “Google limits it’s own ability to snarf data from unofficial Chromium builds”

Right on. Why on earth is Google abandoning precious users to mine data from, especially when it's actually involving less effort than catering to Chrome users?
It's funny how privatizing space travel made costs plummet.

Privatized healthcare, on the other hand, is a disaster.
Why should they really care? They are selling the electricity and access to the grid anyways. Better to sell the shovels than trying to find gold. Investing in an expensive large-scale charger infrastructure could very easily go wrong and they might not get a return from because of competition.
Can anyone share a favorite example of an audio game?
Depends what you plan on doing. Also all that knowledge is available for free. Guess it depends what you think the piece of paper is worth.
> I get that there is a need to differentiate, for the purpose of discussion, traditionally privileged white people from, well, literally everyone else.

Is there? Asians are wealthier, more educated, more upwardly mobile, less likely to be shot by the police, and live longer, than whites. As an Asian-American man, I can expect to live as long as my Irish-American wife. Latinos, meanwhile, have various disparities resulting from the character and recency of immigration, but have similar economic mobility to whites, and within 1-3 generations achieve economic parity with whites. Cubans, who came to the US as refugees with no money, achieved parity in just one generation. 60% of multiracial people, mostly white-asian and white-hispanic, identify as white, and not multiracial.

Black and Native American people, meanwhile, face persistent economic disparities that are both large and are completely unchanged since the segregation era. Almost all black-white multiracial people identify as Black or multiracial, not as white.

The constructed term "people of color" actually obscures the fundamental dynamics of American society:

1) America is incredibly successful at assimilating immigrants, white or non-white, both socially and economically. The term "people of color" obscures the fact that these groups are basically experiencing the same economic and social trajectory that Germans, Irish, Polish, Italians, etc., experienced over American history.

2) America has been unable to make any progress at eliminating economic disparities for two groups that face unique historical circumstances: Black people, and Native Americans. The term "people of color" obscures the fact that these groups are facing American experiences that are sui generis in American history.

"People of color" is strictly less useful of a term than what preceded it, "underrepresented minority." And it appears that people realize that impracticality, because you've seen the emergence of phrases like "assimilation into whiteness" or "white-adjacent" to describe Asians and economically assimilated Latinos. These are phrases (which are offensive, by the way) coined to remedy a self-inflicted problem: defining who is "privileged" in the country in terms of "whiteness" and not something that actually reflects society.
I know it's trendy to hate on billionaires, and by no means do I think this step makes Mark Cuban the new "Mother Teresa" or anything. But I have to say, by and large, I feel like Cuban is legitimately a "good guy" as billionaires go. Yes he's rich, and he's unabashed about it, but he seems like a normal and reasonable human being nonetheless.
I don't know, maybe the government should regulate the predatory behaviors or business instead of weird libertarian strategy that is already not working for people who have no insurance and their life is destroyed when they get sick?
We have an entire team of people responding on social and I wanted them to be the DRI https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/directly-resp...

I think the blog post with me as the author https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/01/26/new-gitlab-product-... and the FAQ https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/faq-new-product-subscriptio... answer most questions. But happy to answer any other questions.
Yes, this is the dark edge to the utopia which Banks occasionally alludes to.
> Social media platforms are one of the most accessible forms of long-distance communication

E-mail? Have you heard of it? Signal? Other IM platforms. And you continue on selling social media as means of friendly communication which is not true. There's gazillion alternatives but those were all eaten up by the giants. All those use cases and people that you mentioned used mailing lists before and were doing just fine.
I don't know. But I am desperate to find a good github alternative, so thanks for the suggestion. But at the same time isn't it quite easy to set up a github server?
Is it the same for studs or thoroughbreds?

What I’m getting at is that for most animals the owner can be compensated for accidental death easily. (How much is a head of cattle at auction?)

Not that this explains all the discrepancy, but it may explain a non trivial percentage.
I did think about that, that’s why I added the second paragraph, namely that what about RNAs? (Since presumably they precede the DNA world) They can self-bind (I don’t know the proper nomenclature in English), but by all means they have 4 bases.
I thought GitLab was ahead of GitHub features?
I'm a bit too cynical to believe a benevolent billionaire will save us.

Me thinks theirs something else at work here. I could see Mark Cuban building this company up , selling it for billions at which point we're back were we started
> One complication is that GitLab requires that all users in a group are on the same plan

Honestly that really sucks. We are not impacted by the change (we pay for a higher tier), but we have non coders that would benefit from having gitlab access who don't because the price (which would be the same as for devs) makes it not worth it :/
Ok - I get the 'artificial reef is good' aspect but leaving the topside structures in place?

No way is that environmentally safe to do (imo). I’ve been on a few rigs over the years and the Topside structures are heavily contaminated with various petrochemicals.

By the time you have decontaminated it sufficiently for it not to be toxic to marine life and doing it at sea with all of the added costs and complexities vs. a full cap and off-shore decommission? Uhmm no, the sums don't add up.

Factor in the the added (admittedly pennies per tonne) value of the the scrap metal and the benefits of just leaving it there are head scratching.

Being fair – perhaps a properly capped well with the jacket left as an artificial reef might make sense, although the chances of it being snagged or snapped in the decades to come by a passing vessel probably outweighs the slight benefits of leaving it there for marine life to inhabit it.

I’m assuming that the proposal in TFA includes the costs of ensuring that all of that rusting infrastructure is properly decontaminated before it slowly corrodes and drops down to the sea bed but the article doesn't seem to mention that.

The costs of ensuring that the topside structure (the 'oil rig' bit that sticks out of the water) is properly decontaminated at sea to a level that would be safe(-ish) for marine life? Yeah, I think HN correctly spotted the smell of bs in the authors' proposal.
I think the better question is why it costs $24B...
Who's "we"?

Anyone who's read Plato's Republic knows the dangers of democracy, or is lying to themselves.
It says right in the complaint:

Title 18, United States Code, Section 241
Just learn aseptic technique and suture yourself.

I generally agree with your sentiment - regulation and insurance overhead are big costs. I do think some people should be able to do the basics at home if they wanted. Basic sutures are a pretty good example, you could even save that $150 that you mentioned.
Indeed.

It is also common for a victim of fraud or scams to feel embarrassed about falling for a scam.

It is not a fault that a person trusts another human, it is an asset.

Victim blaming is just as bad as the fraud or crime itself.
Chamath Palihapitiya on Wallstreetbets [audio]
What is the alternative to shutting it down when a large majority of your population is idiots who don't believe the virus is real?

Seriously. What else do you do?

You should have given much larger stimulus checks and fund small businesses to help them stay open. Doesn't require leaving the restaurant open so Joe Six Pack can continue going to McDonalds every day like a moron.

The political wedging on this issue is gross and annoying.
> upgrade your user, not your product

What does this mean, exactly?
The "Find a Pharmacy" option doesn't work for me either.
A guy was on talking about his ex-gf Maddie, and then it carried on.
Very similar in developing countries, as well. I've gotten stitches in Mexico and Colombia for less than $40 USD each time which healed comparably or better to the stitches I've paid >$500 for in the US. Consultation for an eye infection along with the antibiotics in Mexico was $23 USD.
Here is a link to the audio podcast version of CNBC's "The Halftime" report. The link puts you 11 minutes into the show, where the interview with Chamath Palihapitiya begins.

Palihapitiya is a regular guest on this show, but was invited to appear today because of the extraordinary price action in the common stocks of GameStop ($GME) and AMC Entertainment ($AMC) resulting from short squeezes on each stock.

The remarkable thing about what Palihapitiya says is that he criticizes the institutional investment community which operates hedge funds who use excessive leverage to bet against small investors who-- in this case-- have bet that the stock is oversold.

At one point today 140% of the total number of shares of $GME stock had been shorted (meaning it was borrowed and sold to others, with the expectation that the investors who borrowed the stock would be able to buy the stock back as shares of $GME fell from inflated levels).

The interview makes extensive reference to the /r/wallstreetbets, https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets, subreddit and constructive analysis of the trade setups for these stocks.

According to a related CNBC article, https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/chamath-palihapitiya-closes-...:

"Instead of having ‘idea dinners’ or quiet whispered conversations amongst hedge funds in the Hamptons these kids have the courage to do it transparently in a forum,” he said. “What it proves is this retail [investor] phenomenon is here to stay. There are 2.7 million people inside wallstreetbets. I think they are as important as any hedge or collection of hedge funds.”

"Palihapitiya claimed the best research on stocks done by retail investors inside wallstreetbets is nearly indistinguishable from the best research on Wall Street. “That edge is gone. Now all of a sudden, retail can be on the same footing and they don’t have to be the ‘bag-holder’ to Wall Street.”

I think a lot of people in this community will be interested in the idea that members of a subreddit can compete with institutional investors when the institutional investors' theses about a stock are either incorrect or so crowded that almost no one can make money trading with the institutional investors' strategy.
How many people are going to lose their investment though? Melvin and others are obligated to pay and over 100% of the shares are still shorted. At this point it seems like the concern is whether or not they can pay out.

I don't know much about trading so I'd like to hear anyone with better insight.
Veterinary care has been increasing considerably more than core inflation (quick search turned up https://www.in2013dollars.com/Veterinarian-services/price-in...).
I'm not sure how that compares to inflation in human healthcare.
Considering all the shorts that need covering, I'd say there is a lot of room for the retail investors to sell and take profit as the shorts close out their positions.
Cities are incremental. They gain complexity through iterative accretion
Detroit Alley Cleanup Program Surpasses 500 in First Year
Hmm, I'm not sure how I feel about that comparison. Most vets double up as pharmacies, restrict access to prescriptions, and sell at least some prescription drugs at prices that have been marked up by at least an order of magnitude by the manufacturer.

Some of the bills that I've run into have still managed to approach the cost of routine visits at some specialists when billed to my HSA.
Reporter Flees the US After Antifa Death Threats
"The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company" is a mouthful. Did he really need to put his name on it?

I also don't see anyone else listed on the website. No physicians, no chemists, no engineers. It doesn't inspire confidence.
Almost certainly the Sirius Cybernetic Complaints Division
I love examples like this, I hope you don't mind me tagging on my own.

Our team was doing in home interviews for a TV product. One of the customers subscribed to an expensive sports service and yet barely ever watched it.

When we probed it was because her two sons had left home in the last year and she knew they would come home when a game was on if she had the service. She said that she wish she knew when big/popular games would be coming up so she could invite them around and see them more often.

We trialed a fortnightly email newsletter for people that were subscribed but not very active. And saw a decent uptake in viewing almost immediately.
>You seem to be making the argument that if it’s legal, it’s not immoral.

Yes, I would say that legally reducing one's taxes is not immoral.

>By necessity the law does not (and cannot) cover every single aspect of human behavior.

Yes, but in the case of tax law, the complications are created specifically to allow loopholes, and/or to allow the government to not have to transparently state costs. I would posit that any goal of tax deductions is more transparently accomplished by the government spending the cash outright and having to account for it.

>Just because what IKEA is doing is legal does not make it right.

In the context of tax law, I think it's all fair game. If the people want to close loopholes, then close them for everyone. As a business, I'm going to do whatever I need to maintain a competitive advantage. As a voter, I'm going to support legislation that levies taxes according to the quality of life I think people should have in society.
When we were kids, my brother bought a spent 30 mm GAU-8A bullet and kept it around on his desk. Were all of the rounds depleted uranium? We knew it could be DU, but didn't have a scintillation counter, and didn't bother to measure its density. He just kept it far from his bed and his food.

I know solid uranium metal isn't so bad, and armor piercing shells typically have a tungsten or DU core covered with lead (if nothing else, to keep the super hard core from abrading the barrel).

It must have been solid lead, or lead jacketed tungsten, right? My brother has 4 perfectly healthy kids, but I could imagine some kid keeping a DU shell in his/her pocket, in close proximity to their gametes for years.
You could run lots of things with the right plug-in/activex component. And even VBScript on IE/Win. But Netscape Navigator was not yet dead, so the only reliable browser scripting language was JS.
one is a necessity and other one is not. If it's too expensive to launch stuff to space, most companies won't. If it's expensive to get a drug, well you will either pay up or suffer until you die.
The 12 Pro on the other hand is constantly sold out, the wait times are usually over 2-3 weeks at least in EU. In Slovakia and Czech republic the major distributors are still only shipping the Pro models from end of November! I have ordered mine on January 1st and the estimated shipping date is middle February...